Getting Personal: Selected WritingsBasic Books, 05.11.2003 - 399 Seiten From the man who is practically synonymous with the form of the modern personal essay comes a delightful collection of prose, poems, and never-before-published pieces that span his career as an essayist, novelist, poet, film critic, father, son, and husband.Organized in six parts (Childhood; Youth; Early Marriage and Bachelorhood; Teaching and Work; Fiction; Politics, Religion, Movies, Books, Cities; The Style of Middle Age) "Getting Personal" tells two stories: the development of Lopate's career as a writer and the story of his life. |
Inhalt
Samson and Delilah and the Kids | 3 |
373 | 25 |
17153 | 47 |
Never Live Above Your Landlord | 119 |
On Shaving a Beard | 130 |
Against Joie de Vivre | 142 |
The Brunch | 157 |
Teaching and Work | 167 |
The Movies and Spiritual Life | 280 |
Detachment and Passion | 288 |
The Story of a Marriage | 302 |
Confessions of a Shusher | 311 |
Reflections on Subletting | 316 |
The Style of Middle | 325 |
Portrait of My Body | 327 |
The Moody Traveler | 335 |
Hanging Out | 169 |
Chekhov for Children | 189 |
Suicide of a Schoolteacher | 220 |
Politics Religion Movies Books Cities | 261 |
Resistance to the Holocaust | 263 |
The Dead Father | 339 |
The Story of My Father | 358 |
First Love | 397 |
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